expostulation

Would her next expostulation be against the need to take care of every detail herself?

But it returns no word to my questions or expostulations.

I silenced his questions and expostulations, told him what he was to do.

Much of the popular British press also reacted with expostulations.

To the expostulations of his wife he seldom answered any thing.

Again I collected my energies for a final attempt at expostulation.

Heedless of his mother's expostulations, he carried it out the door.

Instantly there came muffled angry expostulation in a girl's voice.

But such expostulations may not reflect a true distaste for turkey.

That may well have been just a moody expostulation.

Waving aside the man's shocked expostulations, she ran to a phone and put the call through.

I began, but he ducked his head and kissed me, cutting short my expostulations.

I now went into an earnest expostulation with him upon the extravagant length of his report.

She did not care to waste any more of her scant strength on arguments or expostulations.

Nay, we must use expostulation kindly, For it is parting from us.

Others made abrupt, intricate gestures as if they were weaving expostulations.

Their answer to this expostulation was, in their own language, "come on shore, and we will kill you all."

We not intend to sour your late delights With harsh expostulation.

The French prisoner followed hard behind him, with a buzz of reproaches and expostulations.

The death song, which is the song of the oven, was raised, and his expostulations could no longer be heard.

There was much expostulation and waving of hands.

Mostly the two men dance to silence, punctuated by their breathing and occasional expostulations.

Whereupon Michael would look about the glasses on the table and begin his usual expostulation with the waiter.

Possibly this was understandable, since she had been responding to expostulations of this sort for two days now.

From his high-pitched expostulations, Naismith guessed he was unhappy with events.